René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On Tuesday January 03 2017 11:41:29 Robert Maynard wrote: > >> It is the responsibility of the project to understand what components >> of CMake they require, and correctly specify a cmake_minimum required >> that satisfies all those requirements. In this case to use compile >> features you need a minimum of 3.0 which also automatically enables >> policy 25. > > I agree with you in a way, but in reality it would be up to end users and > packagers to feed back that information to an unknown number of projects > and convince them why it's necessary to comply with the request. That's > just not doable. It would be a lot easier if the policy could be set at a > central location, in this case in the Qt module invoking the test that > fails. > > > And it's CMake's responsibility to generate useful error messages, and > where possible provide a hint for the fix.
Usually CMake does. CMP0025 is a bit unique (perhaps to a fault) in that it does not. Look at its docs. Thanks, Steve. -- Powered by www.kitware.com Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit: CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
